For candidates, ADAPTOVATORs would love to know more about you and your journey. Since we partake in Business Agility Consulting as well as Agile Coaching services, these are several aspects that we look for in our interviews:
- Identifying key information
- Prioritizing issues
- Ability to structure a problem
- Drawing conclusions from facts
- Resilience/motivation
- Tolerance for ambiguity
Being an ‘ADAPTOVATOR’ means being part of an incredible team and having opportunities for personal and professional growth. In line with our feedback culture, throughout the interview process, ADAPTOVATORs from the Talent team and/or interview panel will help to navigate your path towards progressive improvement.
ADAPTOVATE interview process
Thank you for joining this journey with us.
1
HR Interview
The talent team will learn about your motivation for the role and assess your skills and experience relevant to the role and level you are seeking
2
Case Interviews
- Take-Home Assignment: You will receive instructions 24 hours before the interview, followed by a 60-minute debrief with a Senior Consultant or Project Lead
- Case Interview: Conducted by a Project Lead, Principal, or Partner to evaluate your consulting and coaching skills
- This round includes two case interviews, which can be a combination of one take-home assignment and one case interview, or two case interviews
3
Managing Director Decision Round
The Partner interview will assess your skill set in relation to the role and provide you with an opportunity to further understand the work we do
4
Reference Checks and Offer
Congratulations! ADAPTOVATE is extending you a job offer upon a successful interview. We will conduct reference checks with two referees to ensure the best fit for both parties
5
Onboarding
Welcome to ADAPTOVATE! Our onboarding process will help you settle in and prepare for your first client assignment or internal work
Career Interview Tips
At ADAPTOVATE, we embrace innovation. There are no “right/model answers” for case interviews. Our recruitment style promotes diversity at all levels, including diversity of thought, which underpins the values of ADAPTOVATE. To help you out, these are a couple of recommendations:
- Identify the case interview question category
- Clarify the question the interviewer is asking
- Identify the missing information and ask for it
- Don’t be afraid to ask for time; it is ok to take 1-3 minutes to gather your thoughts
- Share initial thoughts and ask for feedback
- Restructure final solution, identify next steps and logically frame them
- Time period (short term, mid-term, long term)
- Plan to implement / find out information
- Bucket and group information together
- Write proposed solutions down, so that it is easier to frame your thought process
Sample case study – Client
The client has been in business close to 90 years. The original founder started in the whisky business and over time expanded the product line so that today it is a multi-million dollar business with less than 5% of sales coming from whiskey.
Background
Last year, however, several possible internal / external events happened that caused our client to pay attention to their whiskey brand. While the market declined at 2% our client’s brand declined by 15%, despite selling 10 million bottles.
The whiskey market size in the U.S. (our relevant market) has been declining at 2% over the last 20 years and our client’s brand sales has been declining at the same rate. The company has neglected the Whiskey brand for many years as they were focusing on other products.
Question
What is going wrong that has made sales of the client’s brand suddenly decline?
Poor performance | Average performance | Superior performance | |
|---|---|---|---|
Structure/Framing problem | “I don’t think whiskey demand is poor – my family drinks lots of it” | “Poor performance in whisky could be due to competition from other brands. I would look at what other competitors are doing” | “There are a number of factors for declining sales, which can be categorised into demand factors and supply factors. For demand factors, the main ones I will examine are: a) consumer substitution (i.e. drink other alcoholic drinks, b) brand substitution (i.e. drink other brands c) seasonal impact, d) economic impact (i.e. in a poor economy people cut back)” |
Identifying relevant information | Starts asking for a variety of information – no clear logic | Asks a series of specific questions related to a single logical line; can process answers and move on | Defines information needed, including rationale; lays out plan for how to gather that information
|
Drawing conclusions from facts | Cannot calculate breakeven correctly
| Correctly calculates breakeven; may account for fixed costs
| Calculates breakeven correctly, sees implications for pricing, moves to logical alternatives
|
Identifying key implications and next steps | Limited or illogical additional recommendations on where to improve; formulaic approach (eg, spend more on marketing) | Needs to be asked for ideas on potential solutions
| Drives to potential solutions on their own
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